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Red Melon not eating Clamped Fin

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Need advice on treating this fish, by my limited knowledge I can assume it's been attacked by Hex since I believed the stress that the shipping caused on this little guy. Please help me determined if I'm right or if I need to treat them differently.

I just posted that salt and high temp works wonders on discus for both illness and stress. Personally, I'd try the salt/high temp for newly shipped discus.

As for Hex, if you are certain, you will need special treatments . A discus forum might help with that illness. Maybe some here are experts on this illness and can voice in. Best of luck.

Aside. A minor issue is your nitrates - they are a bit high for young discus and it would help to reduce them.

Last edited by Cermet; 11-16-2012 at 12:25 PM.

Knowledge is fun(damental)

A 75 gal with eight Discus, fake plants, and a lot of wood also with sand substrate. Clean up crew is down to just two Sterba's Corys. Filters: continuous new water flow; canister w/UV, in-tank algae scrubber!! Finally, junked the nitrate removal unit from hell.

Discus need as close to zero for all water parameters as possible but young, if you want them to grow full size, need zero nitrates and zero phosphates at all times. Discus keepers use R/O filters (after readding required minerals) and some (like me) use algae scrubbers. These devices get you zero for all the bad guys.

For adults (grown out) and never to breed, nitrates < 5ppm is fine.

Knowledge is fun(damental)

A 75 gal with eight Discus, fake plants, and a lot of wood also with sand substrate. Clean up crew is down to just two Sterba's Corys. Filters: continuous new water flow; canister w/UV, in-tank algae scrubber!! Finally, junked the nitrate removal unit from hell.